Yesterday, the wife and I jumped in our '11 Ram 1500 Big Horn Crew 4x4 and went for a day trip to Mount Rainier National Park. The park itself is about 40 miles away from my base (Fort Lewis, Tacoma WA), but the drive we took was roughly 400 miles, we went all the way around the park. We saw everything from rivers, to waterfalls, to glaciers. It really is one of the most magnificent National Parks in the country. Top 5 I would say (and we have literally toured the country several times)...We took over 350 pictures yesterday, but I won't do that to you. Instead, I uploaded all of them to photobucket and picked out the best ones. Being that I just had my hip surgery, she did most of the walking, I did some, but not any of the trails. She took both cameras and went on her merry way snapping photos like a boss. Anywhoo, here they are...

All in all, we had a great time and we spent about 10 hours on the road, but roughly 6 in the park (2 there and 2 back). We went 289 miles and used a little over a half of a tank of fuel in the ram. Definitely $60 worth of fun and pix. Entrance to the park was free because I get a free annual pass to all national parks through the Army. If anyone would like Hi-Res pix, I got ‘em, just shoot me a PM!

BlueJet

07-13-2013 09:40 AM

I so miss the PNW!!!! Thanks for taking the time to post these!!!

ArmyofOne

07-13-2013 11:24 AM

Yeah, it took like 6 hrs to type the thread up and upload all the pix... :LOL:

CajunDodge

07-13-2013 11:30 AM

Wow, just wow, simply beautiful, definitely a part of the country I would love to visit someday! Makes me wonder, what was the temp that day? Awesome pics of some spectacular views, I agree, thanks for taking the time to put that together for us! :smileup:

- Cajun

maust1

07-13-2013 12:39 PM

That looks like so much fun I want the o make my way up there with those family some.day.
Mick